Only needs 2 bolts on the front engine stub. That entire shaft installation is a real super pain in the ass. That's why I wanted to remind you to not forget the half round keys. It's a super duper pain to have to go through it twice.

Was out in garage today and tractor just sitting there now, waiting for me to get back on it's needs. Decided to start it, just to see how it went. Started right up, and the throttle worked great, just as it should, not fast, good wide open speed and then backed it down again, and almost died from too low of idle, then when I tried to rev again was all back to the wild running problem again! SO, this is second time this has happened to me on this tractor. What could the issue be?? When running good, gov acts fine and smooth, when it kicks into the bad running it waves back and forth wildly when reved up, smooths out low speed tho.

Well, decided I"m done with this tractor, want to move on. Have way too many new things in it, and still needs tinkering and the body work I didn't touch. I now have together some and can start and drive it around if do throttle careful. Lift works. I have a deck for it, but would need the front part of driveshaft to attach and a little bit of hanger metal to keep it on. One side of that was missing. Thinking it will be going to Portland this fall. Here's pix, think I can get $350 to $400 for it? Gonna ask that at least.

The engine speed problem is due the spider in the governor coming apart. Most were plastic and would break up. That causes the governor balls moving around sporadically. Which causes speed issues. Sometime too fast, too slow, and just right. You have to pull the cam to replace.